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General resources

Alfred Deakin, the voice of federation
http://www.deakin.edu.au/alfreddeakin

Centenary of Federation 2001
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10492/20021115/index.htm

Online exhibitions

Our Nation's First Capital: Federation and the City of Melbourne 1901-2. An exhibition by the Public Records Office of Victoria.
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/exhibs/ournation/index.htm

Belonging: A Century Celebrated. A touring exhibition developed by cultural institutions in Victoria and New South Wales.
http://www.belonging.org/misc-pages/people_place.html

Forging the Nation: Federation - the first 20 years. A travelling exhibition by the Australian War Memorial.
http://www.awm.gov.au/forging/index.htm

Federation: Australian Art and Society, 1901-2001. An exhibition by the National Gallery of Australia.
http://www.nga.gov.au/Federation/Default.cfm

Research resources

The Federation gateway to information by the National Library of Australia.
http://www.nla.gov.au/guides/federation/index.html

See also, article on the iconography of nationhood as depicted in the Watson Papers 'Drawing the New Nation' NLA News, February 2002.

The National Archives of Australia's Federation website.
http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/federation.html

The Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation website provides information and resources on the history of the Chinese in Australia.
http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/

Alfred Deakin, the voice of federation
http://www.deakin.edu.au/alfreddeakin

Education resources

Federation resources for schools and students, including original documents and images
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/fed100/

Imagining Australia 1914-1918: Images of Australian identity in the First World War
http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/edu_ww1/

Books on Federation

Helen Irving (ed), The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation Cambridge University Press, 1999.

John Hirst The Sentimental Nation: The Making of the Australian Commonwealth Oxford University Press, 2000

David Headdon and John Williams (eds.) Makers of Miracles: The Cast of the Federation Story Melbourne University Press, 2000

Raymond Evans, Clive Moore, Kay Saunders and Bryan Jamison 1901: Our Future's Past Macmillan, 1997

John Lahey Faces of Federation: An Illustrated History Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 2000

Aedeen Cremin (ed.) 1901 Australian Life at Federation: An Illustrated Chronicle University of New South Wales Press


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